We cannot underestimate the power, knowledge, different techniques, easiness, tools, and skills that different technologies add to our businesses and society. Put that down, technology is the reason behind every improvement and betterment in the world. Today, we are going to talk about another life-changing technology that has been a leading factor in reducing human efforts.
Transcription technology is a two-way process, which includes voice recognition, and the second is converting the recognized words into written documents.
Transcription technology
To understand transcription technology, you have to understand what is meant by transcription. In biological terms, transcription means transferring or copying information from a DNA sample to RNA. Now, transcription technology is somehow related to this. Read on!
Transcription technology is used to convert or translate human words, sentences, or characters into text form. This is a simple definition of transcription technology. Transcription technology is a two-way process, which includes voice recognition, and the second is converting the recognized words into written documents.
I know that this technology is quite interesting and beneficial to have in your business. But transcription technology is still not so efficient to use and be dependent on. There have to be further improvements. Google Assistant, Siri, or Alexa is a common example of transcription technology. If you test any of them, you will see some mistakes, missing, and disability to understand what are you exactly saying. Try to speed up your conversation with them and watch them make a mess out of everything you said.
Still, we are not implying that this technology is a waste of time or resources, there have to be more improvements in the future. There are some excellent, beneficial, and reliable transcription software that can handle your work. After all, being completely dependent on any technology can be dangerous sometimes, and this is why if you ever use transcription technology in your work, your task should be to edit, revise, and proofread the content written by transcription software.
What are the uses of transcription technology?
Thanks to science and human efforts for the improvements, they have brought to the world of technology. Transcription technology is one of those technological inventions that are going to change the working environment of every business in the future. I’ve seen some places where transcription technology is still working, and providing with good efficiency and quality results:
- School, colleges, and universities for recording lectures
- For recording speeches at different events and seminars.
- In software houses, where the clients are explaining his/her requirements.
- Recording interviews.
By analyzing the pace of its improvements and further inventions, I’ve made some predictions of its futures uses:
- We can see this technology in courts for recording and writing down all the hearings.
- Writing down some uncleared voice recording.
- Recording, and identifying the voice by scanning it through the criminal database to identify the criminal.
Best free transcription software:
I did some research to identify the best and free-of-cost transcription software that can help an individual in different cases. I’ve written about the best transcription software I found.
Express Scribe:
As you can see that this software remains on the top of my list. because this transcription software is considered as one of the best software ever developed. Since its launch in the market, I have seen some applications of this software already. I read some reviews of this and I was stunned by its customer reviews. Transcription technology is still on its way to improvement, but this software has everything that a transcription software should possess. This software can be installed on both windows’ computers as well as iOS mac books. Its friendly user interface is quite attractive and easy to use.
Trint:
On the greatest and most accurate transcription software, I have ever used. It is not free though, but spending something on this will surely get you some error-free results. Moreover, this software allows recording for 600 minutes a month for free. This is one of the transcription software that is developed by the giants of technological inventions. This software can deal with all the background noises, uncleared noises, and everything that causes trouble for an inefficient transcription software.
Critical overview:
As I have explained all the golden points of transcription technology, now it’s time to dive into some critical overview of how it is affecting the environment of different events. As I have explained before in my “Machines cannot replace humans” blog, technology is not always as efficient as humans. Read On!
I did some research and found serious critical points related to transcription technology. Some of them are given below:
Effects on traditional styles:
Let me ask you a question, do you speak as frequently as you write something? Do you never use words like “hmm, uhm” or anything else? How are you going to deal with such words if they come in written documents?
Let me share my own experience with you. Whenever I interview any candidate, I got someone to write our conversation, his/her answers to my few questions. One time, I assigned this job to a premium transcription software and the results blew up my mind. The candidate’s speaking power was neither so bad, nor so fluent, but that premium software ruined the documentation.
So, I did some research on my experience and found some blogs on such experiences. There were so many such incidents. Now, I think the best and most efficient way to record any conversation through any transcription software is to remove all the background noises, and speaking very clearly. Such conditions are not possible for every environment. In the past, the writing job was assigned to someone with good writing skills and the results would still turn out to be better than a transcribed document. Moreover, writing an interview by yourself will undoubtedly reduce the efforts of understanding the transcribed data.
Wrap up:
I have said it before, and I will say it now that transcription technology is still in its growing days. There is no doubt that this technology can solve so many problems and ease the way of life for humans. The critical overview of transcription technology is some critical points on the current efficiency of transcription software. I am sure that technology will improve over time.